Animation Night Canada Vol.1

Long celebrated for its groundbreaking achievements in animation, the National Film Board of Canada has earned international acclaim and dozens of Oscar® nominations for its animated shorts. During a particularly fertile period between 1965 and 1985, the NFB played an instrumental role in the medium’s rapid evolution, breaking new ground with a wildly varied and inventive run of films that are alternately abstract, eerie, entertaining, poetic, poignant, and psychedelic. An eye-opening overview of this seminal period in animated film history, Animation Night in Canada, Vol. 1 features 14 Oscar®-nominated classics with style and personality to spare.

• Carlos Marchiori’s The Drag (1965, 9 min.)

• Les Drew and Kaj Pindal’s What on Earth! (1966, 10 min.)

• Ron Tunis’ The House That Jack Built (1967, 8 min.)

• Norman McLaren’s Pas de deux (1968, 13 min.)

• Ryan Larkin’s Walking (1968, 5 min.)

• Michael Mills’ Evolution (1971, 10 min.)

• Yvon Mallette’s The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973, 8 min.)

• Bernard Longpré and André Leduc’s Monsieur Pointu (1975, 13 min.)

• Caroline Leaf’s The Street (1976, 10 min.)

• Ishu Patel’s The Bead Game (1977, 5 min.)

• Co Hoedeman’s Oscar®-winning The Sand Castle (1977, 13 min.)

• Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon’s Oscar®-winning Special Delivery (1978, 7 min.)

• Ishu Patel’s Paradise (1984, 15 min.)

• Richard Condie’s The Big Snit (1985, 10 min.)

Special Features:

• All films restored by the National Film Board of Canada

• Eight additional shorts from the directors in this collection:

• Norman McLaren’s Oscar®-winning Neighbours (1952, 8 min.)

• Yvon Mallette’s Boomsville (1968, 10 min.)

• Co Hoedeman’s Matrioska (1970, 5 min.)

• Les Drew’s The Underground Movie (1972, 14 min.)

• Ishu Patel’s Perspectrum (1975, 6 min.)

• André Leduc’s Canada Vignettes: Instant French (1979, 1 min.)

• Caroline Leaf and Veronika Soul’s Interview (1979, 14 min.)

• Ron Tunis’ This Is Me (1979, 27 min.)

• McLaren on McLaren (1983, 8 min.) – The legendary director of Neigbours and Pas de deux reflects on his filmmaking career

• Alter Egos (2004, 52 min.) – Laurence Green’s documentary about Oscar®-nominated NFB animators Chris Landreth and Ryan Larkin

• Booklet featuring a new interview with animator and NFB Head of Animation (1967-1972) Robert Verrall, plus additional notes on the films

• English SDH subtitles